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Cowboys for Trump resists reveal of financial contributors

SANTA FE – The support group Cowboys for Trump and its founder Couy Griffin are resisting pressure to disclose financial contributors in what could be a test case of a 2019 New Mexico state ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Colorado man sentenced threatening to kill official, lawyer

ALBUQUERQUE –A Colorado man has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for threatening to kill a New Mexico state official and an attorney with a law firm in connection with a fraud c...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Agency reports first plague death in New Mexico since 2015

SANTA FE – A Rio Arriba County man has died of the plague in what the state Department of Health says is the first such death in New Mexico since 2015. The man was in his 20s and ...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

DA won’t prosecute New Mexico park ranger in fatal shooting

ALBUQUERQUE – The attorney for the family of a Colorado man fatally shot by a U.S. National Park Service ranger in New Mexico said she was disappointed with a district attorney decision to n...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Man in child porn case that closed observatory indicted

ALBUQUERQUE – A man linked to a child pornography investigation that sparked a mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico two years ago has been indicted. Court docum...

DATE: Aug 8, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Pandemic tests boundaries of remote work in New Mexico

SANTA FE – State Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart has returned to New Mexico and is self-quarantining as a precaution against coronavirus transmission after working remotely for sever...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails to offer online classes

ALBUQUERQUE — The Girl Scouts of New Mexico Trails says it will offer after-school and weekend online enrichment courses amid the pandemic. The group said Thursday it would admini...

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

Green chile distributors to sell directly to public

Changes at stores pressure distributors

DATE: Aug 7, 2020 | CATEGORY: Business

New Mexico beef packing plant reports 21 coronavirus cases

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A state agency in New Mexico has reported 21 employees at a meatpacking plant in Roswell tested positive for COVID-19, the most cases reported to the state by any one jo...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico starts offering rescue loans to small businesses

SANTA FE, N.M. — State finance officials started accepting applications Wednesday for low-interest loans that are designed to help small businesses endure the financial stress of the coronav...

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico school officially dumps Spanish conquistador name

Indigenous leaders and younger Latinos say brutality shouldn’t be celebrated

DATE: Aug 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Local News

New Mexico Holocaust Museum hit by vandalism

ALBUQUERQUE – Vandals damaged the New Mexico Holocaust Museum and Gellert Center for Education on Thursday just as the burial of congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis was being tele...

DATE: Aug 5, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News